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Mijbil the Otter
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
My friend left, and I arranged to meet him in a week’s time. Five days later, my mail arrived.
I carried it to my bedroom to read, and there, squatting on the floor, were two Arabs; beside them lay a sack that squirmed from time to time. They handed me a note from my friend: “Here is your otter...”
1. Whom did he find sitting on the floor?
2. What had they brought?
3. Give the meaning of ‘squatting’.
1. He found two Arabs sitting on the floor.
2. They had brought a sack containing an otter.
3. Sitting.
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How did ‘the opening of that sack’ change Maxwell’s life?
Why was the otter named as Maxwell’s otter?
How did Mijbil get accustomed to Maxwell and his new surroundings?
How did Mijbil behave with water?
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What happened when Maxwell took Mijbil to the bathroom?
What does the narrator learn about the otters?
What did Mijbil do in the bathroom that left the narrator amazed ? What irritated Mijbil?
What were Mijbil’s favourite pastimes?
Why did Maxwell put Mijbil into a box? What happened to him ?
What was “an appalling spectacle”?
Why did Maxwell call the airhostess “the very queen of her kind”?
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